Me and my friends are big anime fans. despite this we all agree that this one particular group of people at our high school were the last people we wanted to hang out with. the BIG anime fans that need to make everything a reference and constantly throw in Japaneses words into their English sentences and are always wearing cat ears or something like that. i mean dear lord.

Technically the medium is animation. Anime being a meaningless term since all of its stories could be put under "Romance" "Terror" "Action" etc. etc. In another lens, anime is a subgenre of the animation medium but not a medium by itself.